| 单词 | to ride the line |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto ride the line c. U.S. to ride the line: to make the circuit of the boundary of a cattle-drift in order to drive in stray cattle. ΚΠ 1888 T. Roosevelt in Cent. Mag. Mar. 669/1 Those who do not have to look up stray horses, and who are not forced to ride the line day in and day out. to ride the line d. Hunting. The straight course in the hunting field, esp. in phrases to ride the line, to take, keep one's own line. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > [noun] > type of run wanlacea1425 ring1717 point1789 line1836 1836 New Sporting Mag. 10 62 Nothing is so unsportsmanlike or so dangerous as to cross a man at a leap; every one should keep his own line, and if a man when he gets close to it fears the fence before him, he should pull up. 1895 Outing Dec. 196/2 A parson he was, after a sportsman's heart... Though an old man when I knew him, he always rode the line religiously. < as lemmas |
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